Nigeria Experienced BGP Control Plane Disruption on July 31
Nigeria experienced a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) control plane disruption on July 31, 2026. The event began at approximately 20:10 UTC and lasted for about 4.3 hours, concluding by 00:30 UTC on August 1. The primary technical impact was a degradation in the BGP signal,…
Nigeria experienced a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) control plane disruption on July 31, 2026. The event began at approximately 20:10 UTC and lasted for about 4.3 hours, concluding by 00:30 UTC on August 1. The primary technical impact was a degradation in the BGP signal, which measures the routing visibility of the country’s internet prefixes.
Technical Details
The disruption registered a severity score of 409. The affected BGP signal recorded a drop of approximately 2% from its peak visibility level during the event. Other internet measurement signals, including active probing for IPv4 reachability and backscatter traffic analysis, showed minor fluctuations but no significant correlated outages. The cause has not been publicly attributed.
Network connectivity was reported restored by the end of the observation period.
